Do you want to do business abroad? Or do you want to make new business contacts and strengthen your relationship with existing customers? Especially in the current 'online era', the language in which you communicate with your international business partners has a lot of influence on how your conversation goes.

PSV football player Timo Baumgartl not only trains on the field, but also at STE Languages. He does this together with his girlfriend Julia Negassa and Kim Bestgen, the girlfriend of PSV goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall. The three of them work on their Dutch language skills.

Dear client, last year we were able to wish each other a carefree Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, this year however, more thought has gone into our annual Christmas and New Year's wishes. 2020 has almost come to an end and we look back at this year as an intense and emotional year for people, whether within business, or privately. Hopefully, we can look forward to a better year to come, albeit with some uncertainty but we hold on to faith and positive energy for 2021.

Our Open Enrolments will start again from 13 January 2021. You follow language training in a group of maximum 9 students, online or face to face. These courses aim to increase the Dutch, English or German language level. At the moment, more than 450 students have already registered for the Open Enrolments in January.

In 2011 Mohammed Alkhateeb (24) fled from Syria to Turkey. The violence of war forced him to start a new life there but in the end he could not stay. In 2017, he came to the Netherlands and took his dream of becoming a general practitioner with him. In order to start realising that dream, he had to learn the language first.

Mick van der Vossen (23) is a student at Utrecht University. Mick wrote a thesis for his Human Geography & Planning studies about Indian expats in the Netherlands. His interest in this subject arose because he had noticed that the number of (Indian) expats is growing rapidly. He conducted 22 in-depth interviews for his research, 13 of which were with highly skilled migrants from India, who work within various positions for large companies in the Netherlands. In his Blog Mick writes about how knowledge of the Dutch language contributes to the successful integration of Indian expats in the workplace.

STE Languages is like a mini universe. People come to us from all over the world and everyone has their own story to tell. Yet, they always have the same goal and that is to learn a foreign language! That of course creates a special bond, as Jenny Polishchuk (from Israel), Mohammed Shibli (from Palestine), Khaled Sawas (from Syria) and Saurabh Jaiswal from (India) all know.

Did you know that STE Languages can also provide short, intensive training courses in various foreign languages? Ed Veelenturf from Vespo B.V. attended an individual intensive Portuguese training course given by Elsa de Kok - Patricio de Barros. During the course a delicious lunch was served by Emidio Oliveira from the Lugar restaurant in Waalre.

STE Languages has become a Partner of Archipel Academy. Archipel is a label and platform of training organisation Schouten & Nelissen, where learning and development is made accessible to companies and firms. Archipel Academy organises training for large organizations and HRM Managers, so that companies can avoid the stresses and strains of having to arrange all their own training courses. Archipel Academy offers their own independent online learning platform and an up-to-date range of training courses for the growth and development of people.